tv Documentary RT May 7, 2019 4:30am-5:00am EDT
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travel to tanzania a country in east africa known for its incredible landscapes unspoiled beaches and the best so far is in africa. however what this promotional film does not specify is that tanzania is also the incredible land of coca-cola. here everyone waits for red and white buses who works alongside reginald white walls and in the playgrounds children play around red and white the logo is everywhere so offer a while you was stopped noticing it. the good
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news is that in this country you can still find coke bottles made out of reusable glass but this will all soon be over. what the american company is doing in tanzania what it did in the united states fifty years ago replacing the glass bottles with plastic ones. and that's what is going on behind these walls inside one of the four coca-cola factories and zinnia. all guide is james mother the manager of the new production line a production line which only makes plastic bottles today they're producing bottles of found one of the numerous brands inside the coca-cola group.
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everything is automated and the equipment is brand new the bottles of filth behind this window. and this dock up by. the third. is just to get around it but the book a book or two in the lawn well i've been out of the. eighty six thousand three hundred and forty bottles in two and a half hours that's a lot of plastic we did the calculations that ten bottles a second and that's in the oh mom production line in one of the factories in the
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country. and five years ago this factory only fabricated glass bottles but on the day of our visit the production line for glass bottles is almost at a complete standstill. because there was a stove at sixty a week apart from plastic allowed to be where you are. about the fridge apart from those who are defending the roof in terms of plus add to that so it's office that's good to look good to. the aesthetic perhaps but the choice of plastic is essentially unless you glass bottle to kill the very time of the book got rid i don't care about the guitar. only care records show. what our guide is trying to say is that plastic doesn't seem to be a problem. but the environment intends. to come back at fifteen minutes of
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a two hour now i think as the business bus pick to fill the political both busted. up in the. now that our factory visit is finished we can finally show you the one does that the book at ten sitting on. unforgettable ten twenty. here are the real results of coca-cola is famous recycling business and just by looking at the waste collect as we were told about it's clear that the recycling business is first and foremost a potty economy. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family
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were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solid doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chaunced one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of wilf which will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.
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what is it called in decline is magic internet money a new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor bring a second bailout for a bank that's called that got us a lot for a reason to calling it civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial destiny it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's a game changer in the human history and this is columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the moon with max and stacey. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstration going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know we hear a pretty meaningless to
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a pretty with a neighbor lose out of school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself. to feed half family she connects plastic on the beach. the best to have a party going to club or. to play when you are. yes the one ball too lazy
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to notice a good enough for a bit like the mexican you know your mil i don't know if. evidentially sunny is also leaving its mark in tanzania. by working eight hours a day much i can collect up to twenty kilos of bottles at two hundred fifty shillings a keynote that's ten cents she earns less than two million records and that's on a good day. someone you know more than they're going after money going to buy the reason i asked to help with it or she did this couple of months i had a young guy that was going to affect him this year because yeah i'm a twelve and i need to sell as a physician but it would seem they are getting there because the money and i need to conduct the government. why the price is down in the shape of the deposit at the
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current. too much plastic and too many people like mata who collect empty bottles just to scrape by. to bear witness to the most unsustainable side of this savage recycling economy we head to the largest ship in the land dar es salaam the economic capital of the country. every time a truck arrives to unload waste it's the same frenzy.
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you are. not a fool gonna be somebody that was a white guy he's going to. lose up the unions who are his and i pinned. him down you ought to know that ben does his job but with gordon i was a tough. you know joe. you know. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste. but tell me what you got an actual. we did to one of us and when i didn't get on and i am of i'm biased in my native. zero zero. model moon has already spent two years rifling through waste in search of plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one move to the recycling business here need the strongest make it. can all go where it resides.
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so much all kinds of buyers is no more know much. more attractive than about no not at all. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. we get to meet the people who dictate the neuron the new market for recycled plastic. we find them in the suburbs of paris and. these are the companies who buy plastic bottles this one is the largest in the country.
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before coming here we never would have been madge and filming anything quite like this. a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have to climb with seventy kilograms on your head. at first we're almost fascinated by this blue mountain and the incessant coming and going of climbers all smaller than their loads. but then we took to the. yeah but actually it was our. enemy to me. at
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the time. and i. had it in the sound. of your call to look. at the foot of the mountain these workers begin their final sorting session they put the colored bottles and plastic bags to one side. they put the clear bottles into large bags these bottles then go through these machines to be reduced to small pieces before they can be recycled. and. until very recently the company exported this plastic to china the largest buyer of recycled plastic in the world this is what the side manager is about to explain to us. yesterday when i was working and asking for correct. then you're about to tell
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me the price went down a few months ago the way down the wise saying that the one tool by this one was told. to sit in the east bank to be ready to explode because does not know if you know my kid so what did you do when you couldn't export to china all that keep on buying we buy and we buy you but you see the money thing this is because you couldn't sell to china so i can relate. in twenty seventeen china announced that it no longer wanted to be the world's largest rubbish bin and that they would stop importing used plastic from january twentieth. this decision to the collapse of the recycled plastic market our precarious business and an economy that rests entirely on the backs of the most vulnerable.
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a on trend. and eat. it too soon maybe for we for all of in here doesn't know what i mean that's for the terror. class the members. here the system the. clique you put are you teasing. you know on some tests nick. why do government ties do plastic. that cost of a lamb tax cowboy on. mate yeah days if in a fast day don't simple thank you for methadone trust is just temporary i collect the money with coca-cola you can still taste the feeling in plastic bottles zero
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waste does not mean zero plastic and the promise of a second the economy is very far away to conclude our investigation a single statistic will suffice during the length of this film nearly thirteen million bottles of plastic left been sold by the coca-cola group throughout the wound. in the. twenty first century politics also is going to get some some elements of the take
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and at the moment here it isn't a table people would like to interact to which is happening to individuals are using their judges through facebook suites me to another interacting with political events and judging it so i took it from the imposed dosing the results. this fall felt there was a period of sort of the whole world to see whether if your first read it. there might be a while to the minute that it wasn't i go to the well the film. losing is its appeal to all of the good of it all you want to go to the banana that is that. you'll know paul. enough well it was pretty good way to lose a. crow but you still do which could go along with the gun long ago but i come.
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here to your room or you're going to go did you storm the lead here slim i looked up from moods sure bears are doing their courage your kind of story. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here i mean your list book video it's really in the new bill is that i knew spilling into the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty forty and. those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these an article that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.
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in the headlines today just bluffing russia's foreign minister says he doesn't believe that there's any real appetite in the u.s. for military intervention in venezuela. european commission president downplays concerns the euro skeptic parties are set to make him president it gains in the blocks upcoming elections. russia continues to mourn the victims of sunday's plane crash in pier moscow which killed forty one including a twelve year old.
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